To solve the problem of not finding the linker - I had to set the CROSS_COMPILE environment variable using these bash commands.
CROSS_COMPILE=nios2-elf- export CROSS_COMPILE
Running make - the build completed with no errors.
THIS WAS fully documented in the README file starting at line 4929. So I fully deserve a "RTFM idiot" comment and Kudos to the writer(s) of the Uboot README file.
Dave
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Dave Williams < dave.williams.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
I am trying to build Uboot for Nios2.
I do the following on Linux bash.
git clone git://git.denx.de/u-boot-nios.git cd u-boot-nios/ make menuconfig
These proceeding steps complete with no visible errors or warnings.
make all
This step fails with the following error
LD arch/nios2/cpu/built-in.o/bin/sh: nios2-elf-ld.bfd: command not found scripts/Makefile.build:354: recipe for target 'arch/nios2/cpu/built-in.o' failed make[1]: *** [arch/nios2/cpu/built-in.o] Error 127 Makefile:1037: recipe for target 'arch/nios2/cpu' failed make: *** [arch/nios2/cpu] Error 2
I tested to confirm that both 'nios2-elf-gcc' and 'nios2-elf-ld' are in the path and are executable.
It appears the compile completed but the nios2 linker is not found. The Nios2 binaries - nios2-elf-gcc and nios2-elf-ld are in same path location.
I have been running Nios2 successfully on Linux.
Anyone else seen this error or found a workaround?
Dave USA